El Museo’s Triennial Defies Stereotypes Mapped onto Latinx Art

Good morning. ☁️ Today, an inaugural triennial offers some hope for the future, new Medici frescoes w

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Good morning. ☁️ Today, an inaugural triennial offers some hope for the future, new Medici frescoes were discovered in Florence, and a contested Chicago monument’s complex cultural history is unpacked.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

El Museo’s Triennial Gathers Works That Defy Pervasive Stereotypes Mapped onto Latinx Art Amid the museum’s complicated past, this first triennial offers some hope for the future. Valentina Di Liscia

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A recently discovered fresco depicts Cosimo II de Medici, the fourth duke of Tuscany and a patron of Galileo (photo courtesy the Uffizi Gallery)

During a restoration of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, a team of construction workers discovered a pair of frescoes dating back as early as the 1600s. If you’re in New York and are comfortable sitting in a theater again, the Museum of the Moving Image is reopening on April 30 with exhibitions and new screening programs at their Redstone Theater. The Penn Museum issued a statement apologizing for keeping the remains of MOVE bombing victims and vowed to return them to the family.

SPONSORED Washington University in St. Louis Announces 2020 & 2021 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibitions A Thing Like You and Me and smoke, signals, space open at the Sam Fox School’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

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Dave McKenzie Brings His Methodical Approach to the Whitney Museum’s Facade Debuting May 1, McKenzie’s Disturbing the View takes its inspiration from New York’s “squeegee men.” Dessane Lopez Cassell

Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries. Coco Fusco

SPONSORED Mana Contemporary in Jersey City Presents "Implied Scale: Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change" The five-artist exhibition will be accompanied by a roster of public programming hosted at all of Mana’s locations in Jersey City, Chicago, and Miami.

“Art & Resilence” Aims to Raise Funds for Syrian Refugees The charity auction features a wide range of artists, including John Akomfrah, Diana Al-Hadid, Judith Bernstein, Rico Gatson, Isaac Julien, Tala Madani, and Hrair Sarkissian. Dan Cameron & Diana Al-Hadid

A Contested Chicago Monument to Native Americans Gets Caught in the Crossfire of Balkan Nationalisms Any discussion of “The Bowman and The Spearman” would be incomplete without an understanding of the progressive, idealist politics behind Ivan Meštrović’s chosen style. Roko Rumora

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